---
urn: urn:us-la:rs:37:3351
citation: "R.S. 37:3351"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 37 › Chapter 49"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1985, number: 408, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
---

# Purpose

The legislature hereby declares that in order to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state against the unauthorized, unqualified, and improper practice of respiratory therapy it is necessary to provide for the regulation of persons offering respiratory services to the public.